UCF coach Scott Frost was disappointed to learn former Knights kicker Donald De La Haye lashed out at the Knights football staff for lack of support in a new YouTube video posted Monday.

De La Haye said Frost asked to meet with him after the kicker posted a video saying he might have to choose between collecting revenue from his YouTube channel and remaining a college football player.

A UCF NCAA compliance officer explained to De La Haye during a meeting in June the video revenue would likely make the kicker ineligible. NCAA rules bar athletes from collecting revenue off anything that features their status as college athletes because it essentially shifts them from amateurs to professionals.

“I walked into his office and I swear no lie, 16 coaches are in there,” De La Haye said in a video recounting his meeting with Frost and the football staff. “Every single coach from the coaching staff were in there ... and my chair was singled out in front of my coach’s desk. . .. He’s like, yeah, ‘Do you understand how many problems you are causing for this university right now. How many people’s jobs you’re putting in jeopardy. So basically he sat me in his office and grilled me that whole time. So right off for real, I get no support from my head coaches in this whole process that I’m going through. I feel like it’s me against the NCAA and me against my coaches.”

De La Haye said Frost later “grilled him a second time,” telling the kicker he wasn’t sure he could trust him on the field if he managed to broker a deal with the NCAA to retain his eligibility because of the way he behaved.

Frost never publicly admonished De La Haye for speaking out to the media about his objection to NCAA rules and did not remove him from preseason camp until De La Haye declined the final terms of the NCAA’s waiver offer.

“It bothers me a little, but I’ve only heard second hand what he’s said. I care about every one of our football players,” Frost told the Orlando Sentinel Tuesday.

“It doesn’t do me any good to talk about someone who is not on our football team. We have 103 guys out here sweating and working and who showed up for camp and are sacrificing for the team. Donald made a choice not to be a part of that. I respect his decision and wish him the best, but any comment I make isn’t going to help the situation.”

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De La Haye’s latest video recounts in greater detail how his YouTube channel ended up in the NCAA crosshairs and asks followers to donate to his GoFundMe page, which he hopes will raise $30,000 to offset the loss of his football scholarship. During the first seven days the fundraise has been online, De La Haye raised about $11,400.

The athlete’s push to generate more subscribers for his YouTube channel and earn more revenue is what first got the attention of the Knights’ NCAA compliance office, according to De La Haye.

In the summer, De La Haye decided to give away UCF gear he got as a football player to those who subscribed to his YouTube channel, followed him on Instagram and reposted a picture of the account on Instagram.

De La Haye said within the first hour he got 3,000 Instagram followers and was quickly contacted by a UCF NCAA compliance officer about potentially violating rules.

After the meeting in June, De La Haye posted a YouTube video about his situation and it generated national media attention.

De La Haye said he met often with the UCF compliance office staff about his YouTube revenue and social media history. He said he was often told it seemed likely he’d be able to reach an agreement with the NCAA, but the final terms of the waiver offered by the organization stated De La Haye had to remove his football videos from his channel and couldn’t post anything football related.

When he offered to remove the ad revenue from select videos that did feature football, De La Haye said the NCAA responded that he was still generating a following and potentially could earn money off of the videos despite the lack of direct advertising payment from the NCAA.

De Lay said he was not comfortable with the NCAA terms he saw as unfair and ultimately had to surrender his college eligibility.

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